The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1887-10-15
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ought not to be satisfied with minister
who can sling nothing heavier than a
tack hammer"
WOMEN alone compose hourishing
Presbyterian church at Sidney, ILL., They
built and dedicated it substantially free
from debt, but the offices have been va
cant for year because there are no men
to fill them. Women who can build a
church ought to be considered good
enough to officer it.
REV. DIR. JOSEPH PARKER prefers to
preach from pulpit rather than from a
platform. On platform he says mans
legs are painfully conspicuous and his
boots have mean look. "How," he
asks, "can man do retail trade with
out a counter?" By pulpits he means
little wooden structures shaped like a
wineglase."
"THE old idea OF salvation" said
HENRY WARD BEEoHER, "was that men
we're crackers, all cut of a certain size.
baked to certain dryuesz, packed in
church boxes, and kept there; and, when
men we're taken into church, they were
like SO many packages taken by an ex-
prefs company, and safely delivered at
the other end of the route"
IHE late ANNE GILcHRIsT noted in her
diary the fact that CARLYLE, meaning 10
say something pleasant to Mr.. BRowN1Na
about the Ring and the Book remarked.
1t Is wonderful book, one of the most
wonderful poems evepwrittep. I re-read
1t all through all made out of an Old
Bailey story, that might have been told
In ten lines. and only wants forgetting"
MUCH indignation is expressed by
Englkh Catholics at the action of the
Roman police in Selling the pope's iubi-
lee medals because the inscription upon
them conveyed the idea that his holiness
regal title still remained, at least in the
minds OF the occupants and adherents of
the vatican. This action of the Roman
police is certainly not unauthorized, and
1t doesn't look as if there was much
chance in Italy for a restoration of the
temporal power. "Straws show which
way the wind blows"
SOME time ago a subdivision to the
city OF Denver, COL, was made, and in
honor OF the great Snowman named Bar
mum. The new mayor and trustees sent
to Mr.. BARNUM, asking him to suggest
good names for the streets. He did so
forwarding the names of few of his in
innate Enthusiastically, Gary, Beecher,
Collyer, Chaplin. In return he received
map OF the new town, with all the names
printed among the streets, the trustees
having added for the avenues: Jumbo,
Barnum, Genin, Waldemere, Connecticut
and New York.
SALOON KEEPERS who talk theology
are apt to get things mixed. At least that
was the fate of one who told the habit
ues of his bar about the Andover contro.
versy. "Why," said he, 'they amt Salts
fed with closin' up of the saloon on
Sunday, nor even the whole week, but
they're bound to have prohibition after
death. Only the courts have decided
that's agin the law" He still had the
comfort of fellow saloonist, who said
that "the only way to beat the temperance
folks is to die or go out of the business"
That way is yet open. = Holyoke Trans.
cript.
The occurrence in the summer of
next year OF the three hundredth anni-
versary of the destruction of the Spanish
Armada, has suggested to gentleman of
Plymouth, England, the idea of nation
al celebration. The proposition is more
particularly made to the people of the
western counties of England, but as the
defeat of the Armada was an event of
distinctly national and not merely local
importance-though Plymouth, it is true,
has its own peculiar associations in the
matter-he entertains the hope that the
question may be taken up by the nation
at large. The tercentenary will occur in
June, 1885,
COLONEL JOSEPH CILLEY, of Noting
ham, N. n, veteran New Hampshire
Universalist, whose death in his ninety
sixth year was recently announced, was
man OF distinction in many respects.
He was the oldest ex Senator OF the
United States, was the first anti slavery
Senator in Congress. and was a veteran of
the war of 1912. His ancestors we're of much
note in New Hampshire. the great grand
father having settled in Nottingham in 1928,
and the grandfather, General Joseph Cilley,
having won fame as a Revolutionary hero
and an officer on the staff of Washington.
His brother. Jonathan Cilley, who while
member of Congress from Maine, was killed
in duel in 1888, near Washington, was of
note in that his daring words against slavery
are said to have been the cause of his untime-
ly death. Joseph Cilley was born in Noting
ham on January 4, 1871. In 1912 he entered
the army as ensign and fought at Sackett's
Harbor, Chippewa, and Lundy's Lane. In
this last engagement he was acting as cap
and led a company in the heroic charge on
the British battery which has made memora-
BILE the name of Miller, with his laconic ''I'll
try, sir" response to his Generals question
il he could silence the English guns. While
defending the new position Captain Cilley
was struck by solid shot, sustaining frac-
ture of the left thigh, which resulted in per-